Climate Vision and Water Vision

Gaia Vision Inc. is a Tokyo-based climate science startup established on 6 September 2021, with its office in Otemachi, Chiyoda. It builds flood risk tools for companies and financial institutions that need to assess climate impacts and meet sustainability disclosure requirements such as TCFD, CDP and ISSB.

Climate Vision is a map-based platform that evaluates flood risk for registered sites anywhere in the world at about 30 m resolution in Japan and 90 m overseas, using a global river inundation model developed at the University of Tokyo and licensed terrain and river data. It projects risk under 1.5, 2 and 4 degree scenarios and estimates financial damage per site from asset value or sales. Water Vision is a real-time flood forecasting system that predicts inundation extent and depth about 1.5 days ahead and sends alerts for registered sites. Users include manufacturers, logistics firms and banks.

• Global flood hazard maps: Riverine flood depth worldwide at about 30 m in Japan and 90 m overseas.
• Climate scenarios: Compares flood risk under 1.5, 2 and 4 degrees of warming.
• Financial impact: Calculates expected damage per site using damage functions and asset or sales data.
• Site registration: Users register their own locations and analyse them on one map-based platform.
• Water Vision forecasts: Predicts inundation extent and depth about 1.5 days in advance.
• Free tier: A free version of both products is available on application.

• A Japanese-invested electronics plant in a northern Vietnam industrial park assesses river flood risk under 2 and 4 degree scenarios for its parent company's TCFD report.
• A Vietnamese bank estimates flood damage for collateralised factories as part of climate risk analysis.
• A logistics company registers warehouses to receive flood forecasts before heavy rain events.

• Assesses flood risk for overseas factories and warehouses where national hazard maps are unavailable.
• Provides future flood scenarios at 1.5, 2 and 4 degrees for climate scenario analysis required in disclosures.
• Expresses risk as estimated monetary damage per site, which management and disclosure reports can use directly.
• Real-time alerts up to about 1.5 days ahead give sites time to protect stock and people before flooding.

Japanese regulators and banks are building climate scenario analysis into stress tests and disclosures, and Japanese manufacturers with plants across Southeast Asia need consistent flood risk data for overseas sites. Vietnam hosts many Japanese-invested factories in flood-prone northern and southern industrial zones, so global, scenario-based flood tools are increasingly relevant to both investors and local suppliers.

Established on 6 September 2021 in Chiyoda, Tokyo; representative Yuki Kita. Its flood models build on research from the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo. Climate Vision is cited as a product example in a Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism guide on TCFD physical risk assessment. Users include NEC, Sakata INX, Nippon Kayaku and MUFG Bank (joint research from November 2024). Selected for NEDO's SBIR programme in October 2026.